The cycleswerebeautifulpasssomeabominationsrecall thesame originAvalon: a small groupofalchemistsextremistswho wantedto experimentonhuman guinea pigsthe samemanipulationsonchimeras.Chief amongtheseare theretiarii, true half-human, half-plant creatureswhoact asskirmisherson the sidelines ofenemy armies.Surpassingothera good heador two theretiariialmostresembletoweringsoldiers, powerfullybuiltand usuallysporting asmileas viciousbloodthirsty. But theirgraft,a gianttentacleplant, reminds everyonethat they arenothumanslong ago.Indeed, retiarii are one of many creations of Avalonian Church. Still children, they are recruited from the most violent and the sturdiest of urchins, sometimes sold by parents who believe in making future Templars, and then are subjected to a treatment which no one dares to speak. Saturated with the love of Beathacrann and fed the same vital fluid of the tree of life, they usually become much stronger and swift as their peers, at the cost of irritability and ever-increasing fury. Their training usually ends with the ceremony – that would look more like a display of officiating butcher if there was not a guardian of the faith – where grants them their graft. Their body then ends to modify, giving them a force comparable only to that of giants but also causing their pain as it plunges into some madness. The others control somehow, feeling no pleasure in fear that their allies as enemies when the sickle to cut the head of those they tangled in their monstrous tentacle.